​In-depth analysis Story: Is it really necessary to put intellectual property rights on the chain?

1. Why Story Protocol?

For a long time, intellectual property (IP) management has faced problems such as complex structure, high cost, and heavy reliance on centralized intermediaries. With the explosion of AI-generated content, these traditional bottlenecks are rapidly evolving into uncontrollable risks, bringing challenges in originality verification, attribution traceability, and large-scale, fair authorization.

Story Protocol proposes a new solution to the creative economy driven by digital and AI:

It uses a programmable IP authorization mechanism, deeply embedded on-chain attribution traceability into the content creation process, and builds a flexible combination of authorization modules, making IP re-creation and commercialization more transparent and easier to operate.

Story did not choose to build on existing blockchains (such as Ethereum and Solana), but instead built a self-prospective underlying chain designed for IP more. Although this means higher infrastructure costs and promotion thresholds, it also brings complete control of the underlying architecture.

For example, the core features of Story Protocol include:

• Accurately track the flow of value in recreation
• Royalties splitting through multi-party collaboration
• Embed legal terms natively in the authorization agreement

These mechanisms rely on specialized data structures, customized repetitive computing processes, and the underlying ability to support legal logic - and this is the part that general public chains are difficult to natively support in design.

Story does not simply believe in the cryptographic fundamentalism of "code is law", but it deeply integrates the binding force and enforceability of the real-world legal system in institutional design, striving to achieve a more mature balance between decentralization and legal compliance.

Story Protocol is becoming a key bridge connecting the real legal system with crypto-native infrastructure. It enables content creators and original IP owners to transition to blockchain systems with greater peace of mind, empowering them to achieve sustainable creation and value recovery in the Web3 world.

This report will explore in-depth whether Story Protocol has truly sustainable architectural advantages and whether these advantages are sufficient to support its complexity and ambitions in building exclusive Layer1 chains. We will analyze from the following dimensions: market positioning, technical design, real application scenarios, AI integration strategies and their potential risks.

2. A new era of IP driven by AI

The rapid development of AI is having a huge impact on the traditional IP system. Most of the current systems rely on offline and law enforcement mechanisms, and cannot cope with the emerging new ideas and proprietary achievements that are constantly emerging at the speed of machines. The biggest challenge at the moment is not only "who belongs to the ownership", but how to effectively track contributions and fairly distribute value in large-scale creation.

Story Protocol is the infrastructure created to deal with this change. It is committed to implementing transparent traceability and automated incentive distribution mechanisms on-chain to create a native AI-oriented IP infrastructure.

In a study covering 1,018 scientists found that scholars using AI-assisted research made 44% more breakthroughs in materials science and increased patent applications by 39%. This clearly demonstrates the important role of AI in promoting knowledge creation.

However, after AI became the "co-inventor", a more complex question followed: when the birth of IP was even completed entirely by non-humans, how should we decide who should get the attribution and benefits?

Story is designed to answer this question. It provides tools that support precise ownership in the "human-machine co-creation" scenario, ensuring that both AI and human creators can achieve due rewards while contributing value. In a future where AI can generate content independently and improve the achievements of predecessors, whether original creators are recognized and motivated will be more important than ever.

Many believe that the unlimited content output capability brought by AI will marginalize the intellectual property system. If creation is no longer scarce, executable services of copyright and IP will gradually become invalid. But the future is not yet finalized, and we need an ownership structure for the new content paradigm.

Story Protocol enters a market dominated by three types of IP management systems. Despite their advantages, they are hard to meet the needs of AI native creation for composability and dynamic incentives.

• The traditional IP framework relies on centralized registration and post-accountability, which is obviously not suitable for the digital content ecosystem of high-speed collaboration.
• DRM systems (such as Adobe and Marlin ) focus on content access control and anti-theft, and basically do not support remix authorization, contribution tracking and automatic royalties.
• Although blockchain platforms such as IBM 's IPwe tokenize IP assets, they lack key capabilities such as programmable licensing, second-generation tracking and royalty allocation.

In contrast, Story provides a more flexible and transparent framework, and supports the flow and monetization of IP in NFT, DeFi and the wider encryption ecosystem through cross-chain interoperability, while still belonging to the Story registration system at the ownership level (logically similar to restating in DeFi).

Looking to the future, this underlying facility will also lay the foundation for IPFi. Whether it is IP shareization, mortgage lending, or income derivative design, all these financial innovations require clear creative attribution and composable protocol structure support, which are exactly the capabilities provided by Story.

Story also prepares for AI native interaction, and its special Agent access mechanism supports programmable interaction between AI and IP assets. Leveraging broader technological trends such as open source, decentralization and automation, Story Protocol is trying to build long-term infrastructure for an AI-driven intangible asset economy.

2.1 The Ethical Boundary of "Ghibliization" and AI Art

With the launch of GPT-4o's newly upgraded image generation capabilities, a new round of fanaticism and controversy about AI art has been set off. This also once again highlights that the underlying infrastructure provided by Story Protocol may become indispensable. Many users are excited about GPT-4o's high-level fitting ability to iconic styles (such as Studio Ghibli's classic aesthetic), while the creative industry expresses deep ethical concerns about this trend. Some voices criticized AI for reappearing Ghibli's style as a plagiarism of the creative spirit, which echoed Ghibli's founder Hayao Miyazaki's position that "AI creation is an insult to life."

These fierce discussions actually reflect people's deeper anxiety about intellectual property rights, the replacement of human creativity, and the ethical boundaries of AI content. The basic capabilities built by Story - to make the work's attribution clear at a glance and to embed the terms of use natively into the IP asset itself - provide practical protection tools for creators and IP-based businesses.

3. A dedicated infrastructure for IP

The core design intention of Story Protocol is to create an infrastructure that makes rights easy to execute and highly interoperable. It solves the most "chaotic and real" parts of IP authorization from the architecture layer: multi-party royalty splitting, authorization overlapping relationship, cross-chain asset circulation, and legal and compliant agreement execution.

To achieve this, Story builds a complete set of tightly coupled dedicated modules, with several key components as follows:

Main Execution Core : An EVM-compatible execution environment designed for performance optimization for IP transaction scenarios

Intellectual Property Core : handles complex authorization processes and royalty circulation, relying on two major mechanisms to support:

• Proof of Creativity (PoC)
• Programmable IP Licenses (PIL)

Story Orchestration Service (SOS) : Building an interactive bridge between on-chain assets and off-chain legal and financial systems

Together, these components form the technical backbone of Story Protocol, enabling it to provide an AI-native, composable, compliant, and compliant IP licensing system. Next, we will further break down how these systems work together to support a truly programmable IP economy.

3.1 Native IP execution and cross-chain interoperability

Story's architecture is designed to support highly unique and practical "native IP" features, such as:

• Recursive authorization : The authorization terms can be passed backwards with derivative works
• Multi-jump royalty allocation : payment paths can span multiple creator chains
• Combinable attribution tree : the attribution chain is reusable, programmable, and extensible

Even on faster blockchains like Solana, handling royalty allocations for multi-layer derivative works often requires application layer dedicated code and multiple on-chain data calls. This complexity and high cost are not the direction that general public chains are good at optimizing. In contrast, Story supports these complex workflows natively from the underlying layer, making remix, monetization and home management smoother.

In order to extend these capabilities to the off-chain ecosystem, Story synchronously builds a powerful cross-chain interoperability mechanism. It uses Cosmos' IBC protocol to realize native communication within the Cosmos ecosystem, and integrates cross-chain message protocols such as LayerZero, deBridge and Stargate to achieve wider multi-chain communication. This design allows IP assets to flow freely between different ecology, opening up space for IP liquidity, composability, and authorization use in DeFi applications, NFT platforms, and other encryption scenarios.

3.2 Connecting on-chain IP to real-world systems

To truly unleash the full potential of "programmable IP", Story has built a dedicated core module to directly connect on-chain IP assets to the off-chain world. Unlike traditional universal oracles, Story's Off -Chain Synchronization Core focuses on the fine interactive needs required by IP workflows.

For example, when an independent artist authorizes his digital work through Story, Story's Orchestration Service (SOS) automatically performs off-chain authentication, links traditional payment channels to achieve royalties, and generates legally effective authorization documents.

Although SOS provides a valuable set of off-chain functions (including identity verification, legal document generation and payment integration), no detailed technical documentation has been disclosed to explain its specific operating mechanism. For potential users, there are still obstacles to fully trusting these off-chain services without direct communication with the team.

With this in mind, the table below lists the differences between Story's dedicated oracle framework and general solutions in critical IP processes.

This targeted architecture is particularly practical in handling infringement scenarios - if an IP asset you registered in Story is used unauthorized, SOS can automatically collect necessary evidence from the chain and generate legally effective rights protection materials. This significantly improves the efficiency of infringement discovery and resolution, and at the same time reduces the administrative burden of collecting evidence, initiating lawsuits and removing infringement content in traditional rights protection.

Technicians tend to overestimate the capabilities of their systems, especially when facing the complexity of the real world. But in Story's case, its design that integrates traditional oracle logic and automated processes is the real core value. It builds an experience for users to smoothly connect off-chain needs and on-chain vision, especially in the large number of transactions brought about by the AI ​​content wave. Story is expected to simplify management processes through automation and simplify the management process, allowing creators and enterprises to focus on creation, distribution and commercialization.

**3.3 Creative Proof of Idea Agreement (PoC) and Programmable

Authorization (PIL)**

The core highlight of Story, which is also the key to its continuous differentiation, lies in the "Proof of Creativity Protocol" (PoC) and the "Programmable IP Authorization" (PIL).

As mentioned above, traditional IP systems are far from keeping up with the speed and complexity of contemporary knowledge creation, especially in the context of AI that can quickly generate a large number of digital assets, it is difficult for humans to track content ownership in time.

The core of the PoC protocol is that every asset minted on the chain is automatically embedded in the attribution, ownership and authorization information. This kind of metadata chain storage itself is not new, but Story combines this metadata with the "programmable authorization mechanism" to automate contracts and execution at the protocol layer, which is still the first to be innovative.

The following figure shows the process of synergistic operation of each module of Story, and how to ensure that the registration, ownership and compliance authorization of assets are not washed away by AI-scale content generation from the bottom.

What really matters this approach is its practical role: automatic royalty allocation, transparent auditable records, and authorization clauses that can be self-enforced without manual supervision. The cooperation with many innovative companies also shows that Story provides not just a future vision, but also a set of solutions that can be implemented and commercially available.

Of course, there is still unknown: Will the infringement complaint initiated by Story be accepted by the court? Does its dispute resolution and proof mechanism have the recognition and stability of the global legal system? All of this remains to be seen.

But it is certain that Story does not shy away from the complex nature of the business it involves. If their operational efficiency and actual implementation effect are strong enough, PoC and PIL may become important components of the new property rights order driven by AI. For now, Story has seized a real pain point that many non-crypto competitors have not yet solved with precise and differentiated solutions.

3.4 User interface and developer tools

The success of Story Protocol ultimately depends on its practicality rather than the elegance of its technology. In order to lower the threshold for use among developers and non-technical users, Story provides two complementary interfaces:

• Story SDK & IP Kit : The SDK provides underlying access to the Story full IP authorization stack, while the IP Kit abstracts complex operations into a standardized "plug and play" process. Just as Stripe allows small merchants to achieve a smooth payment experience without building a payment infrastructure, IP Kit also enables developers to provide creators with a concise and consistent interface for registering, authorizing and monetizing IP without having to build underlying logic from scratch.
• IP Portal : A codeless interface that allows creators to manage their IP assets without deep encryption knowledge. This is especially important for artists, studios and rights holders who are accustomed to traditional workflows and helps to promote their smooth “on-chain”.

The following is a screenshot of the IP Portal front-end interface:

Despite the simplicity and intuitive design of Story's user interface, true usability depends on whether these tools fit into a real IP workflow. The above components jointly build a dedicated, IP-native infrastructure, which is the key difference between Story Protocol and a common chain or platform.

At present, more and more people in the crypto community are calling for a shift from repetitive infrastructure construction to creating truly powerful application-layer products, and pushing the industry toward a "broadband moment". Against this background, Story's existence seems particularly reasonable: it is not pursuing basic construction to improve valuation, but rather providing a systematic solution to a real and increasingly severe problem.

In order to further understand why some business models are "only implemented on Story", we will use specific cases to demonstrate the application value of Story in actual scenarios.

4. Actual implementation of programmable IP

Before entering a case analysis, here is an overview of the general user experience differences between using and not using Story:

The next two cases show how Story reshapes the creative and data-driven ecosystem, especially in areas where existing IP frameworks fail or are completely missing.

**4.1 Magma — Protects artists’ rights and helps creative

collaboration**

Problem : Digital artists always face challenges in the protection of their works. The identification and tracking process of creative sources is often not formal, remix works are difficult to count, and revenue depends on the platform (intermediary) or manual authorization process. Once you enter the collaborative creation scene, the ownership of rights becomes more blurred.

Solution : Magma uses Story to embed authorization terms directly into each registered and on-chain work. Their 3 million users can set their own remix authorization scope, attribution tracking standards, and an automated royalty allocation mechanism.

Practical impact : Artists are finally able to control how their works are used and earn income from derivative works. Collaborative creation in an environment protected by smart contracts is far more reliable and transparent than relying on platform policies to protect rights and interests.

4.2 Mahojin — Transparent AI with traceability value

Problem: In the current AI ecosystem, data providers and model builders generally lack effective infrastructure to claim ownership of data , track model reuse , or participate in the profit distribution of their derivative value . Datasets are often collected, adapted and used to train models, but the original contributors are often unlabeled and cannot obtain any financial returns - their efforts are "evaporated" into the black box training process.

Solution: Mahojin uses Story Protocol to register data sets and AI models as on-chain intellectual property assets (IP Assets) and embed terms of use and income rules . When a model is used for fine-tune and generate revenue downstream, the protocol automatically distributes payments along the contribution chain without manual coordination .

Through this mechanism, every data set, every model parameter, and even every fine-tuning operation has verifiable traceability logic and value attributes. This not only improves industrial transparency, but also makes data a programmable and realizable asset unit for the first time.

Actual impact : In the past, once data entered the training process, it was like disappearing into a black box, not only lacking transparency, not only inspiration or rewards. Mahojin gives data sets and models " on-chain life " through protocol-based methods - they are no longer passive resources, but "digital property rights" that can independently participate in value circulation and obtain profit sharing.

Under this mechanism:

• Model builders are able to embed incentive rules to achieve a fairer value distribution;
• Data providers are able to track the flow and use of their assets;
• Downstream developers can also obtain clear authorization to avoid infringement disputes.

Mahojin has established an executable value chain for collaborative AI R&D, making past "invisible" contributions visible, traceable and realizable .

In the above case, we clearly see a common theme: Story Protocol is transforming fragmented and manual intellectual property management processes into programmable and executable systematic architectures.

It can:

• Automatically complete the record and recognition of creative ownership;
• Simplify complex authorization and licensing processes;
• The clearance and distribution of royalties and income can be completed without an intermediary.

These capabilities are the weakest and most prone to disputes in traditional IP systems.

When AI content creation and intelligent agent systems gradually take over the production process, human collaboration alone is far from enough. We need an IP infrastructure that “can work properly without human coordination”, and Story Protocol is building such a new paradigm.

The next chapter will further explore: When IP is no longer just "recordable information", but is directly embedded in the behavioral logic of the intelligent agent, how the Story model will take root in the AI ​​native environment.

5. Rethink IP coordination mechanisms on machine scale

Story Protocol introduces two ambitious fundamental mechanisms to provide structural support for IP collaboration in AI native environments: Chain of Intelligence and Agent TCP/IP . The former is used to establish an executable economic and legal relationship between data sets, models and generated content, while the latter gives the agent the ability to authorize, trade and execute IP protocols independently without any human intervention. These two systems work together to build a new "machine native" IP infrastructure, whose core features are: value transfer and rights execution are completed at the protocol level. However, their performance under large-scale operation remains to be verified.

5.1 Smart Chain: Home Tracking Mechanism in AI Pipeline

Generative AI systems are increasingly relying on layer-by-layer asset relationships: the data set trains the basic model, and the basic model is fine-tuned into a dedicated model, and the dedicated model generates content, which may become the training input for the next generation of systems. In such a dynamic pipeline, how to accurately track and reasonably motivate upstream contributors has become technically complex and economically critical.

Story attempts to provide a systematic solution to this problem by encoding the right to use and royalty clauses directly into each asset. As derivative models or output content create revenue, the protocol will automatically distribute the profits back to the entire contribution network according to the authorization logic, realizing value reflow across chains.

Example : Dataset A is used to train model B, model B is fine-tuned to model C, and model C generates content D. When content D generates revenue, the agreement will allocate the revenue to contributors of data set A, model B, and model C, respectively, according to the preset programmable authorization clause.

Developers can register data sets and models through Story's SDK and API. The Story Attestation Service is also integrated in the IP Portal to compare the generated prompts and results with registered IPs, thereby marking potential abuse and ensuring that IP owners and contributors receive corresponding attribution and revenue share. To support this machine-scale authorization flow, Story plans to launch a specially optimized AI native execution core to handle high-throughput authorization computing needs.

5.2 Agent IP Business: A Protocol Toolkit for Enhanced Autonomy

Agent TCP/IP from Story is designed to provide an entire set of autonomous tools for agents to negotiate authorization terms, execute complex transactions, and fulfill agreements without virtually human real-time intervention. The interaction between agents is achieved through structured multiple rounds of negotiation and is managed by smart contracts. The standardized interactive structure allows agents to repeatedly propose terms, bargain, modify details, and continuously cast draft authorizations during the process, ensuring clear on-chain records and traceability of the entire negotiation process.

To participate in the network, agents must pledge $IP tokens and face token penalties or reputation losses when using unauthorized assets in violation of regulations. These designs are designed to enhance incentive consistency and ensure that the entire protocol remains compliant, reliable and secure even under the premise of a high degree of autonomy of the agent.

Example : A weather forecasting agent automatically initiates authorization negotiation with a dataset provider agent through the Story protocol. The dataset agent initially proposes provisions that include advance payments and continuous royalties. Weather agents use negotiation tools provided by Story to adjust royalties ratios and payment timings. In each round of negotiation, the agent will record the proposed clause as a draft authorization on the chain. Ultimately, when the two parties reach an agreement, the system mints the agreement as a binding authorized token. The revenue generated by future weather forecasts will be automatically returned to the original data set party according to the terms. The entire negotiation process leaves clear and auditable records on the chain.

Compared with general chains, Story's advantage lies in its deep vertical integration in negotiation, coordination and compliance levels. This type of dedicated architecture is particularly critical to the ecology of agents that rely on complex and multi-round interactions, especially in scenarios where human supervision is difficult to expand.

6. $IP Token

$IP is the core token that drives the Story Protocol ecosystem and is used to fund protocol development, community operations and contributor incentives. Of the 1 billion tokens initially issued, more than 58% were explicitly used for the above purposes. Tokens for early supporters and core teams will begin unlocking in mid-February 2025 and will be released gradually over the next 40 months.

6.1 Token allocation

7. Logical verification

Story Protocol proposes an ambitious "programmable IP infrastructure" model. However, no matter how good the architectural design is, it is difficult to avoid friction and risks in the real world. If we want to test its long-term vitality, we must place this theory in a high-pressure environment for substantial "stress tests".

7.1 Legal and regulatory risks

Story's PIL (Programmable License) has greatly simplified complex IP processes, but innovation itself does not mean it can be accepted by the existing legal system. At present, the authorization mechanism based on encryption technology has almost not been substantively tested in courts around the world, and its legal enforceability is still unknown. More complexity is that different jurisdictions have significantly different attitudes and regulations on new technologies, and global compliance expansion faces practical obstacles.

At the same time, in patent-based IP markets such as biotechnology or closed-source software, the in-depth participation of AI has also made the determination of "invention ownership" full of uncertainty. Regulators and patent offices in various countries are still exploring how to define the role of AI in the innovation process, and the combination of two cutting-edge technologies, encryption and AI, has further exacerbated the complexity of cross-regional applicability.

For example:

• Germany 's eIDAS regulatory system is extremely strict in the verification standards for electronic identity and records. If the court finds that the blockchain record fails to meet its verifiability criteria, then Story's on-chain license may be considered invalid in infringement cases, especially in patent scenarios where AI generation innovations occur frequently.
• Singapore has passed the Payment Services Act to clearly support crypto transactions. This more open attitude allows Story's framework to be more naturally integrated into local compliance services, opening up convenient channels for its applications.

The above example clearly shows that the same technology may be unimpeded in different markets, or it may be difficult to move forward. Although Story's open design lowers the entry barrier, to achieve global scale implementation, it is still necessary to achieve accurate docking at the local regulatory level.

For a “programmable license” to truly gain wide recognition, Story requires courts, regulators, and rights holders to build trust in it. This not only requires clear judicial precedents, but also requires in-depth education and ecological collaboration. Otherwise, cultural suspicion and process lag may slow down the actual application of the protocol.

This map reveals how far there is between public perception and legislative action in the face of emerging technologies such as AI:

7.2 Structural risks related to AI

The explosive growth of AI content and innovation is challenging the existing IP framework in all aspects. From works of art to algorithm patents, from scientific breakthroughs to generative code, AI's creative ability makes "rights ownership" vague and makes the "economic value distribution" mechanism more difficult to operate.

The "Proof of Creativity" proposed by Story intends to deal with this dilemma through on-chain registration and traceability, and systematically track content sources, derivative relationships and income ownership. However, whether this mechanism can truly support the huge scale and complexity required by AI remains an open question. Once "attribution tracing" becomes unfeasible, or its economic incentives no longer have practical significance, the foundation of the Story agreement may be shaken.

Especially in fields that rely heavily on AI like drug design and diagnostic algorithms, the participation of AI will greatly blur the boundaries between "originality" and "co-invention". If the court ultimately determines that AI inventions lack attributable attributes or draw on too much existing innovation, then not only will Story positioning be challenged, but the economic foundation of the entire patent system may be shaken.

As @lex_node points out, this is no longer a crisis in IP law, but it is more likely to touch a deeper discomfort proposition: in the AI-led future, does the meaning of intellectual property and even "property" itself still hold?

7.3 Adoption and integration risks

Although Story's technical architecture is designed for IP scenarios and is highly innovative, it also means it may face higher barriers to user adoption and platform integration.

Compared with traditional IP registration and management systems, Story's "programmable authorization" and "automatic attribution tracking" tools may be relatively unfamiliar to users in the early stages and have higher learning costs. If its interface design and accessibility experience cannot be extremely intuitive, even if it has obvious technical advantages, users may still choose to continue to use a centralized platform with simpler operations.

In addition, how Story deals with infringement detection remains an unsolved problem. Art creation will naturally be influenced by style, subject matter, and composition - If a creator's painting style is similar to Hayao Miyazaki, is it a tribute or an infringement? Can Story’s “creative proof” mechanism effectively identify such subtle differences? If the system cannot accurately divide "reference" and "plagiarism", then creators may hesitate to use Story due to uncertainty.

Furthermore, mainstream IP owners (such as well-known artists, research institutions, universities, etc.) usually prefer a robust and trustworthy system. If Story cannot clearly demonstrate the actual benefits it brings (such as cost reductions or revenue increases), its initial popularity will face structural resistance.

Aware of the above challenges, Story adopted an active incubation strategy to provide technical support, market guidance and resource linkage for early ecological projects. This approach is different from "money-spreading" support, and pays more attention to the deep binding and coordination between projects and agreements.

In the increasingly competitive on-chain ecosystem, attention and liquidity are essentially scarce resources. If Story wants to retain developers and users, it must develop a number of native applications that can only be implemented on Story.

7.4 Challenges under the competitive landscape

The real competition that Story faces comes from three mature systems: traditional IP framework, digital copyright management (DRM) system, and general public chains.

• Traditional IP systems : still dominate legal enforcement and industry trust, although they have very poor support for dynamic authorization and content derivatives.
• DRM platforms (such as Adobe) : have been adopted on a large scale. Although they lack flexibility and openness, their stability and compliance still constitute a natural advantage.
• High-performance chains (such as Solana) : Although not designed for IP, the development ecosystem is complete and can provide "enough" IP tools, with a low threshold and high acceptance.

If Story cannot explicitly convey its "irreplaceable" core value to the market, its technological advantages may be misunderstood as "over-design" or "complexism."

Therefore, "positioning", "availability" and "narrative clarity" are not icing on the cake, but rather the core variables that determine whether Story can fulfill its grand scheme.

8. Rational bets on Story Protocol

Story Protocol proposes an exciting vision: to reconstruct IP management systems in the AI ​​era. Instead of trying to fix loopholes in the traditional system, it takes a different approach and creates a dedicated underlying chain that fundamentally solves key issues such as ownership confirmation, profit distribution and programmable licensing - which are the most vulnerable parts of the current system. What’s innovative about Story is that it embeds compliance directly into the protocol layer, enabling a bridge between the native Web3 architecture and the real-world legal environment. This technical design reflects a profound consideration of practical enforceability and legal implications, and also gives it the potential to become a central component connecting the world on the chain with real IP practices.

However, this exclusive chain model inevitably brings some challenges. Compared with mainstream chains or platforms that are more general and more familiar to users, Story's architecture has certain trade-offs in terms of adoption threshold, integration complexity and user experience. Ultimately, Story’s success depends on whether it can clearly and forcefully convey its unique value and demonstrate in practice:

• Concise and intuitive usability;
• In-depth and authentic creator participation;
• Quantitative operational and revenue advantages.

Despite these challenges, Story Protocol still shows realistic and optimistic future potential, especially in the current era of "unlimited AI content is flooded and the boundaries of creativity are gradually blurred." Story’s mission is not only to solve copyright issues, but also to try to protect expressions with the core of human emotions and creativity, from being overwhelmed by the empty content generated by algorithms.

If it can win trust and make substantial progress in the ecosystem it serves, Story is expected to reshape the global IP coordination system, but it is also likely to become an important infrastructure to support a new Internet that is "people-oriented and clear in value".

"Enemy is everywhere, and they have won in countless futures. But I saw a way out... there is a narrow passage."

——Paul Attridi, Dune 2 (2024)

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